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Installing and troubleshooting expansion cards

Installing and troubleshooting expansion cards

From the course: CompTIA A+ Core 1 (220-1101) Cert Prep

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Installing and troubleshooting expansion cards

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- So even though we live in a world of, you know, really built to exact specification, PCs, you will eventually need to install and possibly troubleshoot expansion cards. So let's take a look at the modern expansion card format and then get hands on with one of our most common issues. First of all, I want to introduce you to something that's a little near and dear to my heart because I remember when I got my first PCI sound card and it was absolutely awesome not having to deal with any jumpers or switches on it. If you're an old tech, you'll understand that. But this is a really, really old device but it actually uses the predecessor to what we're going to talk about. So it's important here. This actually is what's called a peripheral component interconnect or PCI, and it was actually the first plug and play type of add-on expansion. It's actually really neat. Now you'll notice our PCI normal ports here, our PCI, excuse…

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